Get help on partitioning here [Part 2]

danmister · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 13

after I already specify where my home partition is, can I change that? if so how?

Thanks,
Dan

danmister · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 13

What is the reason for the boot partition? and why use the ext2 filesystem? Do I still need a boot partition if I have a program such as norton bootmagic?

What is the average size for a root partition?

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 2:28 am Post subject:

danmister · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 13

Does it matter if I use the ext3 file system for the boot partition? Any negatives in using ext3 for boot?

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 3:08 am Post subject:

danmister · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 13

When I create a partition in ext2, ext2, and swap will windows see these partitions since they will be in a different file system? (Basically I dont want to mess up the locations for my windows files.)

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 4:26 am Post subject:

danmister · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 13

so if I mark them as hidden those partitions will not be able to be seen in windows. will they be seen in linux?

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 1:48 pm Post subject:

Yes, I think they will.
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danmister · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 13

am I correct in making swap, root and home and boot partition's all logical?
Or should I make one (or more) primary?

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:02 pm Post subject:

Well, if you can create primary partitions, I would advice using one for /home. That way, you won't get into trouble if you happen to have a problem with your extended partition. However, you can make them all primary or logical at your will - as long as you don't have more than 4 primary partitions, of course.
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danmister · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 13

ok. if I make the boot partition logical, does it have to be anywher specific? ( ex. the first/second/third partition on the first/second drive. ) I had read somewhere that if the boot is logical it should be made the first partition on the drive.

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:50 pm Post subject:

No it doesn't have to be the first, second, third or whatever - at least in a moderately recent system. You can use whatever partition to create the /boot partition. You'll just have to configure LILO or GRUB accordingly.
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grofaz · Guru Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 319

Hi,

I have two hard drives: hda for Windows XP, and hdb for Linux. Currently I have Ubuntu Breezy installed on hdb using the default partitioning scheme:

hdb1 ext3 74,818 MB boot
hdb2 extended 1,475 MB
hdb5 linux-swap 1,475 MB

I want to try for the umpteenth time to install Gentoo on hdb but I'm not sure how to take space from hdb1 without destroying my Ubuntu setup. So far I haven't had any luck installing Gentoo even without Ubuntu on board, but I don't want to be without a linux system at all while I mess around with Gentoo. So I want to take maybe 40 GB from hdb1 and use it to setup Gentoo.

The idea is to have the choice of booting up Ubuntu, Gentoo, or XP using Grub. If I can get Gentoo running, and if it proves superior to me, I'll 86 Ubuntu and go with Gentoo. I like Ubuntu a lot but I get frustrated with having to wait months for up-to-date software. But that's another story.

So my question is how do I reconfigure hdb without starting from scratch ?

Thanks!
Greg

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 6:26 pm Post subject:

Hi Greg.

The first thing you'll want to do, is to post the output of

grofaz · Guru Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 319

No, no, no. My hdb is 80 GB total. I took 30 GB from hdb1 and set it aside for gentoo. So that part of the project is resolved. Now I just need to figure out how to "successfully" install gentoo on that 30 GB partition. I'm at the moment trying to get a network connection going. It's being difficult.

Thanks!

grofaz · Guru Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 319

Here's my fdisk output:

Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 5713 45889641 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 9539 9726 1510110 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 9539 9726 1510078+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

I resized hdb1 to about 44GB and set aside about 30GB for setting up Gentoo. I don't want or need any fancy partitioning scheme. I really just want to get Gentoo up and running so I can check it out and compare it to my Ubuntu setup. If I really like it better I can always reinstall it using a different partion strategy down the road, sans Ubuntu.

So what is the absolute basic partion scheme to get Gentoo up and running ? I figure I can use the existing swap, correct ? Do I need a Gentoo boot partition ? Or, for instance, can I just put everything in an hdb3 partition ? I'm a complete Linux moron, so give me the moron's guide please.

The 30GB's set aside are unused, unformatted territory. How to proceed without screwing up my existing Ubuntu setup ??

Thanks for all!

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fhydan · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 18

Hello and a happy new years to everyone.

I just found out that my hard drive is an SCSI device. Is this better or worse than it being IDE?

killer1 · n00b Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 5

hi all and happy new year

i have recently aquired a new asus a6k laptop and was wanting to install gentoo(amd64) as a second os
the problem i am having is with partitioning the drive. the drive is partitioned as follows

the total usable space is 56gig
2gig hidden recovery partition (which i would like to keep if possible)
10gig primary ntfs partition with winxp installed on it
i want to partition 10gig for boot, swap, / and maybe a /home
and the left over i wanted to use as a shared partition for both os's
also i think it would be cool if the swap drive could be used by both os's

any advice on how to go about doing this or maybe a better scheme to achive this sort of system would be greatly appreciated :wink:

anonybosh · Guru Joined: 20 Nov 2005 Posts: 324

You might check out [ http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Swap-Space.html ] for swap sharing. It's kinda old, but it might do the trick.

killer1 · n00b Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 5

thanks for ur reply liber8ate from what ive read that is something i do after the install so i will leave it till then

so this is what ive done so far

anonybosh · Guru Joined: 20 Nov 2005 Posts: 324

What you could do the maximize even more, is to put your /home directory on the shared partition (the one for both windows and gentoo).

Maedhros · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject:

Merged the last four posts with this topic.
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killer1 · n00b Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 5

I was thinking that to liber8ate but wasnt sure u could do that and went ahead with the first plan. but i got it all installed and working with the shared drive and dual boot so im relativly happy. after a few hours of trying to us the eth0 thinking it was the only network to realize that it put firewire on eth0 and i should have been using eth1 :oops:

now i just have to figure out all the drivers. anyway thanks for ur help :wink:

vieome · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Posts: 1 Location: zim

What language is this gentoo writting and where can I get a copy

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